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j-nn-ly · 1 year
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
- Thomas Merton (No Man Is an Island)
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carlmccolman · 1 year
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So I gave a talk at the @writing_for_your_life Conference on “Writing as a Contemplative Practice.” Here I am, talking like I normally do with my eyes closed. It’s an introvert thing. Photos by the incomparable @kateradnc and T-Shirt but the exquisitely wonderful @franv.mccolman. Belly courtesy of too much chocolate. #writing #contemplation #spirituality #ThomasMerton #icedye (at Candler School of Theology - Emory University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpinbAbuzYy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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o-diariode-quem · 1 year
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Meu Senhor Deus,
Não faço ideia para onde estou indo.
Não vejo a estrada à minha frente.
Não posso saber ao certo onde isso vai terminar.
Nem eu realmente me conheço,
e o fato de eu achar que estou seguindo sua vontade
não significa que estou realmente fazendo isso.
Mas acredito que o desejo de agradar você
de fato lhe agrada.
E espero ter esse desejo em tudo o que estou fazendo.
Espero nunca fazer nada além desse desejo.
— Thomas Merton
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annhansonsculpture · 2 years
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🌀This has certainly been my experience. While I didn’t always know where my artist journey would take me, my intuition told me it was a journey I must take, and that was enough for me. ✨I had so many puzzling mysteries in my life that troubled me and I felt lost on where to start. My art held my hand and showed me the way. My art studio was my safe haven to help figure these things out in. 🌀There are some truths too difficult and painful to approach directly. Our lives are often thick with coping mechanisms that blind us while protecting us and so, we need a different approach. ✨May your personal experience of art, whether you be an artist or an art appreciator, help you find your way💋 🌀Music: “Remember” by @iksonmusic ✨ 🌀 ✨ #annhansonart #artistsofig #artistsonig #annsdailydoodle #artistquotes #artinspiration #intuitiveartist #theartistsway #artquotes #trustyourself #lifeofanartist #artistsoninsta #artistsoninstagram #creativesoul #artinspo #artistsofinstagram #artistquote #thomasmerton #courageouscreative #artjourney #artwords #arttalk #innerwisdom #artthoughts #trustthejourney #innerresource #trustyourintuition #wisewords #innerguidance #arttherapy (at Poughkeepsie, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChPvP5QOxRT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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bdknopp · 2 months
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LIBERTY…
God Bless America “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” ― Thomas Merton Thomas Merton, a prominent Trappist monk, writer, and mystic, teaches us that true love begins with the acceptance of others as they are, without trying to mold them into our own image. This quote serves as a reminder to…
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centrumobecnosci · 1 year
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#walentynki #jesteś #szanuje #kocham #akceptuje #jestem #ufam #wierzę #doświadczam #obecność #cytat #thomasmerton (w: Centrum Obecności) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoojZm8twzg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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ronk · 1 year
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Art allows us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton #art #vermeer #thomasmerton https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFPi_POb15/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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kimeupton · 2 years
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Okay so a lot of folks have asked me about the “shining brightly as the Sun” part of Thomas Merton’s experience in Louisville, KY. Here is a snippet of it, and I highly suggest reading the entirety of “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.” I found this book on a relative’s shelf when I was very young, and I still remember the impact it made on me. . . . #thomasmertonquote #thomasmerton #weareallshiningbrightlyasthesun https://www.instagram.com/p/CgKFE_oLtg4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Looking forward to the George Scarbrough symposium at @reinhardt_university this weekend, as they prepare to open their new archives dedicated to the poet. Hopefully we’ll get to do a bit of trout fishing afterwards too. The lineup of speakers is strong and I am glad to see his work receiving some overdue academic attention. This is something I picked up a while back, the first copy of the Tennessee Poetry Journal. The lineup of writers is pretty impressive, including Ted Wright, Thomas Merton, William Stafford, Julia Randall, George Scarbrough, Frank Steele, Robert Bly, and David Ignatow. Published in the fall of 1967, I’d say it is quite a lineup for a first issue. Poem is “Trompe L’oeil” by Scarbrough. . . . #georgescarbrough #williamstafford #davidignatow #franksteele #juliarandall #thomasmerton #tedwright #robertbly #tennesseepoetryjournal #rarebooks #firstedition #bookcollection #bookcollecting #bookcollection #bibliophile #bookporn #bookhunting #bookstagram #modernfirsts #modernfirsteditions #finebooks #shelfie #southernliterature #southernlit #tennessee #appalachianlit #appalachianliterature #kentucky #northcarolina #virginia #appalachianpoetry (at Reinhardt University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfJjEXJuR2V/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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monasterypod · 2 months
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from No Man Is an Island. This reminder, for me, is a constant call back to a bedrock of nonviolence. In the times of needing to clearly call out violence and oppression and genocide, there can be an exhaustion from working for peace. This exhaustion needs tending. Take care of yourselves friends.
#thomasmerton
#nonviolence
#peacemaking
#freepalestine
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." #Renaissance #RenaissanceThought #Humanism #Interconnectedness #Universality #WestMeetsEast #EmpiricalObservation #CriticalThinking #ThomasMerton #JohnDonne #Antiisolationism
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time #ThomasMerton #aventurasdeamigos #openstudio #puertasabiertas #zapadores #artistas #carabanchel #explorar #inspirar
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carlmccolman · 2 years
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So it’s a treat to buy a used book online and find out that it’s autographed — even if the autograph belongs to the editor rather than the author (in this case, signed by M. Basil Pennington). It’s even sweeter when the copy in question was the least expensive copy I could find, considerably less expensive that other available copies of this same book. It’s a former library book with all the requisite defects, missing dustjacket, and so forth — But the Pennington inscription more than makes up for all that! #ThomasMerton #Merton #theology #prayer #Cistercian #monastic #MBasilPennington #autographed #inscribed #books #bookstagram #spirituality @litpress (at Clarkston, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CemJiDju1OG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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paxlupo · 2 years
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Three brethren. “The European and American realists were so realistic that their pictures were totally unlike what they were supposed to represent. And the first thing with them was, of course, precisely that they were pictures. In any case, nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow.” ~ Thomas Merton This shadow produced with a Leica M246, Summilux 50mm #leica #leicacamera #leicaphoto #leicaphotography #leica_camera #leica_world #leica_photos #leicagram #leicalens #leicas #bnw_universe #insta_bw #bwmasters #excellent_bnw #igblacknwhite #bnw_planet #bnw_magazine #bnw_globe #bnw_of_our_world #top_bnw #bw_photooftheday #bw_crew #thisislowell #lowell #lowellma #thomasmerton (at Lowell, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfl4ksLuQoR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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anastpaul · 2 years
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Quote/s of the Day – 20 December – '… Answer quickly, O Virgin. ...'
Quote/s of the Day – 20 December – ‘… Answer quickly, O Virgin. …’
Quote/s of the Day – 20 December – Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent, Readings: Isaiah 7: 10-14; Psalm 24: 1-6; Luke 1: 26-38 “And Mary said,‘Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.May it be to me according to your word.’” Luke 1:38 “The price of our salvationis offered to you.We shall be set free at once, if you consent.In the eternal Word of God, we all came to beand behold, we die.In your…
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ktobias98 · 3 years
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